Posted on 09/26/2017 7:25:31 AM PDT by Truth29
Spurs coach Gregg Popovich took aim at President Trump on Monday, calling the United States a "global embarrassment" under his leadership after his attacks on African-American athletes who have boycotted standing for the national anthem.
“Our country is an embarrassment in the world," Popovich said in a press conference in response to the president's remarks over the weekend.
The San Antonio basketball coach ridiculed Trump for stating that players who linked arms during the games were honoring the national anthem, compared to those who knelt. The players who linked arms appeared to be standing in solidarity with one another in a sign of protest against the president's attacks on certain NFL and NBA players.
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We just came back from a 3 week vacation in Europe.
Other than CNN International, nonody gives a cr@p about the NFL. The foreign press are leftists/commies/socialists and they hate Trump, that’s been going on for two years, nothing new here.
Unless there is some special kind of pay per view programming, there is no coverage of American sports of any kind in Europe except for tennis and golf. Soccer is THE sport, followed by cricket instead of baseball LOL.
Popovich is an uninformed ignorant @sshole, he has no idea what he’s talking about.
You want a global embarrassment? Try TWO American football teams going overseas and not standing for our National Anthem. Then the same two teams standing for the playing of “God Save the Queen..”
I don't know, but I sure hope not. He has put himself out there as a symbol of the anti-American tripe that is dividing the country. I would hope that the local fans will make him pay dearly for his arrogance.
NFL ratings down nearly 20% from 2016
The year ain’t over yet. They will never rise again till the nearly 200 criminals and the stupid people running the teams and the NFL are gone.
I say, “If they take a knee, give’em the FINGER!!
Bravo NRA, herein: https://youtu.be/z3j1ZKz7PWQ
“If you read some of the recent literature, you’ll realize there really is no such thing as whiteness, but we kind of made that up. That’s not my original thought, but it’s true,” Popovich said.
He added, “Because you were born white, you have advantages that are systemically, culturally, psychologically there. And they have been built up and cemented for hundreds of years. But many people can’t look at it. It’s too difficult.”
Popovich said the above too. What he doesn't realize, or maybe he does, is that you can take the above and substitute "American" for "white / whiteness", and truly get the left's message. Let's try:
Americans have to be made to feel uncomfortable, and especially white people because we’re comfortable. We still have no clue of what being born American means.
If you read some of the recent literature, you’ll realize there really is no such thing as American exceptionalism, but we kind of made that up. That’s not my original thought, but it’s true,
Because you were born American, you have advantages that are systemically, culturally, psychologically there. And they have been built up and cemented for hundreds of years. But many people can’t look at it. It’s too difficult.
There it is, and it is a linear point of all things left. White = American in the leftist lexicon. Americans need to be made to feel uncomfortable.
Pop-a-dick does not get it. It isn’t TRUMP that is his nemasiss. It is us, The United States Citizens.
Mr. Popovich, Patriotism has never be an embarrassment to REAL American’s.
(One great by product of electing Donald Trump has been the way all the cock roaches have been driven out into the light. It’s been an eye opening experience.)
I totally agree. Especially RINO’s who voted for repeal when there was no hope to pass it, and couldn’t vote for it when it counts.
This from Pepperoni Pizza Face Popovich?
Popovich who is known for “popping off” should know an embarrassment when he sees it so long as he doesn’t look in the mirror.
I’m White.
I have zero interest in anyone making me uncomfortable because I’m White.
Poppy sounded like an illiterate, bumbling fool on radio. He threw everything except the kitchen sink into what the protest stood for and most of them made no sense at all.
He stayed silent during 8 years of Marxist rule by Comrade Obama but now he’s the big guy on campus. More like the stable cleanup guy for horses.
Think I’ll “spur” the Spurriers. My money. Greggie baby, take a flying leap into obscurity and “dont’ come back no more, no more”.
I’m getting real tired of this PC bullcrap and holier-than-thou attitude of people who make a shitload of money, get protected by the police from those who want it, and then attack the police.
The worm has turned, Greggie baby, and it’s a DUNE-sized worm with a bad attitude about fools like you.
The Spice! American patriots have the SPICE!
I was under the impression that San Antonio was an extremely leftist city run by La Raza.
Remember, this is the city that foisted the racist, Communist Castro brothers on the nation.
I would assume this douchebag’s comments would be very well received in San Antonio.
The Spurs getting swept by Golden State last season was really embarrassing for the Spurs. Only one of the 4 games was even close.
These NBA idiots have yet to realize just how vulnerable they are out on the court. They may want to consider cancelling the season.
My advice to Trump: Go to San Antonio asap to praise all of the military there and do some really good PR. He needs to fight negativity with good positivity!
Hmmm, being born white means that any and all preferences go to someone other than me, being born white means that I am supposed to pay reparations to nonwhites who may or may NOT be descendants of people who were enslaved by my ancestors, most of said people not knowing the difference between descendants and ancestors, even though I can find no evidence that my own ancestors ever owned a slave and regardless of the fact that my ancestors were impoverished by a wartime invasion of this state by soldiers commanded by a president who said that he would “save the union” by any means necessary even if it never freed a single slave and whose “emancipation proclamation” had no effect in this state which was at war with said president when he issued the proclamation which incidentally FAILED to free a single slave in the Union states of which some still held slaves after the end of the war.
That’s quite a long sentence but I think I have it about right. The next person who says white privilege to me had better be wearing armor but do you think I gave Faulkner a run for longest sentence?
The rest of the world is an embarrassment to US citizens.
“Then why do so many people risk their lives to come?”
You are apparently unaware of the competition now going on to see who can swim ninety miles to Cuba in the shortest time. Haven’t you noticed hundreds of thousands of Americans trampling each other in a mad dash to get INTO Mexico? Airlines are having to triple their rates on one way tickets to Iran.
I’m pretty good at fake news, huh?
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